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06-15-2009, 05:27 PM
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| B.C. flights cancelled as Russian volcano erupts
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VANCOUVER — An eight-kilometre-high cloud of ash, spewing from a remote Russian volcano, forced three flights from Vancouver to Asia to be cancelled Monday.
"There were a total of three round-trip flights that were affected," said Air Canada spokeswoman Angela Mah.
"They were the Vancouver-to-Tokyo, Vancouver-to-Shanghai and Vancouver-to-Seoul flights."
She said the airline is taking it "one day at a time" but has been "re-accommodating" passengers on flights to Hong Kong, which are unaffected.
Mah said Air Canada doesn't yet know what will happen Tuesday and will re-evaluate flights later Tuesday night or Wednesday.
"It depends on the volcano activity and the winds," she said.
"We have also given customers the option of cancelling and travelling at a future date with no penalty. Our customers can contact their travel agents or Air Canada reservations to make those changes."
The eruption of Russia's Sarychev Peak, on uninhabited Matua Island in the north Pacific Ocean, began overnight Thursday and is still underway, according to the RIA-Novosti news agency.
The massive ash cloud spread 310 kilometres to the west, said Olga Shestakova, a spokeswoman for the Marine Geology and Geophysics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"Information on the eruption has been sent to organizations dealing with the safety of airplanes and ships, as the ash cloud presents a threat to airplane engines and may lead to communications systems failures," said Shestakova.
Sarychev Peak is one of the most active volcanoes on the Kuril Islands, a seismically active archipelago that runs northeast from Japan's Hokkaido Island to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
Eruptions have been recorded for more than 200 years, ranging from relatively calm lava flows to explosive blasts.
| http://www.ottawacitizen.com/flights...599/story.html
shit i was just planning to go to asia like in the next 2 weeks I hope that it doesn't get worse.
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06-15-2009, 05:32 PM
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#2 | | Revscene.net has a homepage?!
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and other airlines are doing the same or no?
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06-15-2009, 06:48 PM
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Is there any timeline for how long this will affect flights? I'm leaving for Tokyo on July 1, and other friends of mine are leaving for Tokyo on June 28.
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06-15-2009, 07:20 PM
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#4 | | Revscene.net has a homepage?!
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Anyone ever seen that show about a British Airways 747 flying through a Volcanic ash cloud? Basically its like going through a giant sand blaster at 400-600 mph. They lost all engines and almost crashed! Maybe this is a good thing that they are canceling.
PS - Why does cancelling show up as a spelling error on here but in the dictionary they spell it with 2 L's but allow canceling? Different meaning or something? sry offtpic
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06-15-2009, 08:09 PM
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wow that'd be cool to fly by and see it
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06-15-2009, 08:11 PM
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my friend had his flight to ShangHai turned around mid air because of this.
The pilot asked if Russia can open up the air space for them to pass, but they said no.
The plane ended up landing back in Van and all the passengers are put up at the airport Delta I believe
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06-15-2009, 09:50 PM
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haha canceling, traveling, groveling
it's that schwa sound.. i don't know why, just some random fact i remember from elementary school.
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